Monday, December 14, 2009

Coffee with a canine: India Edghill & her Cavaliers

The current featured group at Coffee with a canine: India Edghill and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

Edghill, on how she was united with Harry, Bella, Stephanie, Bevil and Amy:
Well, a while back -- about 12 years ago now -- I was working on a book and the heroine needed a dog. Since said heroine, like Little Moi is what Elizabeth Peters call a "historical necrophiliac" (see her novel The Murders of Richard III -- a lot of fun, and not what it sounds like from the title, so all you people in the Richard III Society can just not write me nasty e-mails, okay?) -- where was I? Oh, yes -- so the heroine got a Cavalier, because Charles II is my favorite English king, and he had dozens of the little spaniels. And I fell in love with the breed, and ... well, here I am with five of them. I always say it's a good thing I didn't give that character...[read on]
India Edghill lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York.

She is the author of the novels Wisdom's Daughter, which was a Romantic Times Nominee for Best Historical Fiction, File M for Murder, Queenmaker, and the recently released Delilah.

Read an excerpt from Delilah, and learn more about the author and her books at India Edghill's website.

Watch the Delilah video trailer.

The Page 69 Test: Delilah.

Read--Coffee with a canine: India Edghill and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

--Marshal Zeringue